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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Sara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
by Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts - whether they be personal, institutional, or national - that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.
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Children's & YA2022Blueberries for Andy
by Khrystia Venhryniuk (Author), Nadiia Kushnir (Illustrator)
How can we talk to children about problems relating to ecology and the environment? And how can we teach them to be merciful and kind to one another and to all creatures great and small? Psychologists and teachers advise us to discuss such important topics since childhood. The brave and determined Andy the Bunny and his cheerful friends embark on a difficult path, striving for a clear sky without smog , for ponds without filth and plastics, for organic fruit and vegetables without preservatives and chemicals, and much more. How will they do it? Through little steps every day to clean the planet and the minds of its inhabitants. And if you are interesting in reading this book, remember that Blueberries for Andy is not just about ecology: it is also a story of small and brave animals filled with fascinating discoveries and adventures. From 6 to 8 years, 7783 words Rightsholders: Yulia Lyubka yuliapelepchuk@gmail.com
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March 2008Andy Warhol
by Annette Spohn
Vom Einwanderersohn zum Millionär, vom Grafiker zum Künstler, vom schüchternen Studenten zum Star der New Yorker Partyszene – das Leben von Andy Warhol ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Zu Recht gilt dieses Genie der Eigenvermarktung als einer der bedeutendsten Pop-Art-Künstler, dessen größtes Kunstwerk er selbst war: Andy Warhol ist Pop, und Pop ist Andy Warhol.
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Children's & YA2020The After-Time Chronicles
One Small Spark
by Andy Woodage
In the footsteps of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes Andy Woodage's debut novel and our entrance into his bio-engineered fantasy world. The After-Time Chronicles: One Small Spark is a young-adult fantasy novel of good, evil, genetically engineered creatures, romance, blood, and the search for belonging. Imagine a world without oil, where metals are only available if they can be salvaged or recycled. Imagine if coal was running out. It’s a world where armies no longer build metal monsters, but biological horrors. A world where genetic engineering has become the art of war. This is 12-year-old Jothan’s world. Orphaned by a terrible accident, he dreams of leaving his uneventful life with his grandparents on the family’s griffin farm. However, when a catastrophic attack wipes out every homestead in The Zoological Zone, his world is turned upside down. He finds himself thrust into a story larger than he ever dreamed, embarking on a rough journey with a mysteriously appearing warrior to the fabled ‘Temple of Elohim’. Accompanied by his best friend, the griffin Gozell, Jothan sets off across a land ravaged by poverty and wild creatures. Battling his way across the dangerous landscape, his eyes are opened to an empire in the grip of war and unrest... with the ever increasing weight of his role in events to come. Will they make it to the Temple? Will they be welcomed when they arrive? Can Jothan unravel the secrets that seem to control the lives of everyone he meets, including his mysterious saviour?
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October 2023Andy Warhol
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Timothy Hunt, Svenja Becker
Mit acht Jahren wurde Andy Warhol, der schon immer etwas bleicher aussah als alle anderen, sehr krank. Die lange Zeit im Bett vertrieb er sich mit Comicheften und er begann zu malen, aus Zeitungen schnitt er Fotos von Hollywoodstars und Gebrauchsgegenständen aus. Seine Kunstwerke zeigten häufig die alltäglichsten Dinge. Nicht allen gefiel das. Was für ein Künstler soll das sein, der die Dose einer Tomatensuppe gleich 32-mal auf dieselbe Leinwand malt. Heute ist Andy Warhol der erfolgreichste und bekannteste Pop-Art-Künstler seiner Zeit, weil er aus Alltäglichem Kunst gemacht hat. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Fiction2015Pantalones azules
by Sara Gallardo
Pantalones azules is a novel with a deceptively simple appearance. As Leopoldo Brizuela has noted, fifty years after its first publication, it "reveals itself as the recounting of a process infinitely more subtle" than an impossible love affair, which was the key interpretation by its contemporaries. On the contrary, Pantalones azules is a story of multiple disillusionments: those of Alejandro, the young protagonist from a well-to-do family, Catholic and anti-Semitic, who encounters the limits of his convictions upon meeting Irma, an immigrant with a Jewish mother who lost her parents in the European war; those of Irma, who receives not compassion but the inhuman brutality of Alejandro’s convictions; and those of Elisa, Alejandro’s virgin fiancée, who must decide her position within the patriarchal family structure and whether to accept her role as a future wife subjected to the tacit violence of her fiancé. But more than a story of love and disillusionment, Pantalones azules is a prodigious representation, for its freshness and vitality, of the distances that separate social groups, cultures, generations, and genders within the same time and place. A prime example of Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary ability to bring her characters to life with wisdom, humor, a touch of malice, and a surprising economy of resources, this second novel by the author also broadens her perspective on the landscape: the countryside, the city, and the river are depicted here with unusual accuracy, possible only for someone who has experienced landscape and language as a unique amalgam, a defining characteristic of her works. First published in 1963, Pantalones azules has circulated only minimally since then. Fiordo is proud to bring this superb novel by one of Argentina’s greatest writers back to readers.
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2020La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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2024Los galgos, los galgos
by Sara Gallardo
There are beginnings in literature that encapsulate in a few words the entire conflict and grandeur of a work. Thus begins Los galgos, los galgos: “From my father, I inherited a house, half a field, and some money. I cried a lot over his death, but I can’t say that the inheritance took me by surprise. Sitting in the morning light, toward the end of the wake, I suggested to my brother that I would exchange my house for his part of the field, and as he immediately agreed and I had to sign a lot of papers, I realized I had made a bad deal.” These are the words of Julián, the protagonist and narrator of this novel, which can certainly be read as a story of love and heartbreak, but is so much more: an essay on the erosion of our convictions by time, a subtle commentary on the customs and practices of a class, and the impact of those customs and practices on certain fantasies and dissatisfaction, as well as a representation of the countryside, animals and plants like no other in Argentine literature. First published in 1968, Los galgos, los galgos won the Municipal Literature Prize and is considered a major work within Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary oeuvre. Written in a state of grace, infused with a melancholic sense of fatality but imbued with intelligent and refined humor, this is a novel that leaves an indelible mark, profound admiration, and eternal sorrow.
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June 2018Die allerbeste Prinzessin
by Poznanski, Ursula / Illustrated by Büchner, SaBine
An innovative & different princess story! • The three princesses love to quarrel • Original and incredibly witty • Written by Ursula Poznanski and stunning illustrations by Sabine Büchner • Translation Grant! Bianca, Violetta and Rosalind are three adorable princesses. But they share a tiny quirk: they love to argue! One day a visitor asks for entrance into the castle. Prince Waldomir doesn’t enjoy hunting dragons anymore and rather prefers to get married know. Of course each princess is convinced to be the best choice and the prince’s one and only. So a rat race is launched before they have even met the puny prince for the first time…
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The ArtsJanuary 2018The Flower of Evil: Illustration Art of Aubrey Beardsley
by by Aubrey Beardsley Edited by Wei Junlin
This title collects illustrations, posters, and design works of Aubrey Beardsley, the characteristic illustrator in the 19th century. It is the most complete collection of his works in China, edited by Mr. Wei Junlin, painter and researcher of Beardsley.
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September 2015Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze
Ein Briefwechsel 1971 - 2002
by Astrid Lindgren, Sara Schwardt, Lena Törnqvist, Birgitta Kicherer, Steffi Pelzl
"Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze" ist ein tief berührendes Werk, das aus einer einzigartigen Brieffreundschaft zwischen der legendären Kinderbuchautorin Astrid Lindgren und der jungen Sara Schwardt hervorgeht. Beginnend mit einem Brief von der damals zwölfjährigen Sara an Lindgren im Jahr 1971, entwickelt sich über die Jahre ein außergewöhnlicher Austausch, der nicht nur Einblicke in persönliche Gedanken und Erlebnisse beider bietet, sondern auch eine Generationen übergreifende Verbundenheit offenbart. Trotz eines Altersunterschieds von 50 Jahren teilen sie ihre Sichtweisen auf das Leben, die Liebe und menschliche Beziehungen, was diesen Briefwechsel zu einem Zeugnis tiefer Menschlichkeit und Verständnis macht. Bereichert wird das Buch durch zahlreiche Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, die einen authentischen und sehr persönlichen Blick in das Leben und den Charakter von Astrid Lindgren gewähren. Einzigartiger Einblick in das Leben von Astrid Lindgren: Dieses Buch bietet eine seltene Gelegenheit, die persönlichen Gedanken und Ansichten einer der beliebtesten Kinderbuchautorinnen aller Zeiten zu entdecken. Tiefe, generationenübergreifende Freundschaft: Eine berührende Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft, die zeigt, wie zwei Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters einander verstehen und bereichern können. Umfangreiches Material: Angereichert mit Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, bietet das Buch einen authentischen und visuell ansprechenden Einblick in den Briefwechsel. Inspirierend und bewegend: Die Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, mit der Sara Schwardt und Astrid Lindgren ihre Gedanken und Gefühle teilen, macht dieses Buch zu einem inspirierenden Leseerlebnis. Hoher literarischer Wert: Die Kritiken heben die literarische Qualität und die menschliche Tiefe des Buches hervor, was es zu einem wertvollen Bestandteil jeder Bibliothek macht. Empfohlen für alle Altersgruppen: Obwohl es die Korrespondenz zwischen einer Erwachsenen und einem Kind darstellt, ist das Buch sowohl für Jugendliche als auch für Erwachsene eine bereichernde Lektüre. Pädagogisch wertvoll: Das Buch wird empfohlen für alle, die mit Kindern, Jugendlichen oder Familien arbeiten, da es wertvolle Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt junger Menschen und die Bedeutung einer Mentorfigur bietet.
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September 1995Andy Warhol. Thirty Are Better Than One
Eine Kunst-Monographie von Michael Lüthy. Mit Abbildungen und einer farbigen Klapptafel
by Michael Lüthy
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Children's & YAJuly 2019Buchstabendschungel
by Poznanski, Ursula / Illustrated by Büchner, SaBine
Help the animals to find their letters ... easy as ABC!• By best-selling author Ursula Poznanski• Get a first feeling for letters and words!• Humorously illustrated, with funny details!After a big storm in the jungle, the little monkey collects many funny-looking things. “That are letters,” knows the smart parrot. “Somebody must have lost them”. And indeed, monkey and parrot come across strange animals that seem like something is missing. A "iger", a "nake", a "at" … An exciting letter story for reading aloud and early reading, guessing and poetizing by yourself!
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March 2025Illustrated Garden Glossary
by Enid Mayfield
The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 1000 terms related to gardening and horticulture, each supported by superb colour illustrations to aid understanding. The topics covered include plant classification, morphology and growth; plants from seeds; propagation; soil; compost; planting systems; pruning; pests and diseases; water and more. The glossary also explores terms relating to the history of gardens, from ancient Greece and Egypt, to gardens across Asia and the Middle East, and through to our modern-day urban farms. The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a must-have reference for gardeners, plant scientists, horticulturalists, students, libraries, ecologists and urban farmers.
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Dietetics & nutritionAugust 2006Psychology of Food Choice
by Edited by Richard Shepherd, Monique Raats
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Children's & YAJanuary 2015Hatless
by Lateefa Buti / Illustrated by Doha Al Khteeb
Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity. The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless. Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them. So Hatless removes her hat. As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats. Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air. By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens. Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.
